Fatāwa (Fatwas)

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjed (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question, "Is it permissible for me not to observe hijab before the husband of my husband's daughter or not?"

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjed (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question, "Can the prohibition on drinking from the mouth of the waterskin be applied to drinking from the mouth of the bottle?"

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjed (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question, "If a person at the time of Asr congregational prayer enters the prayer thinking that he is praying Zuhr. During the prayer, he realizes that its actually Asr prayer, what should he do when his intention changes during that prayer. Does he have to cut the prayer at that point and perform it from the beginning?"

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjed (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question, "I have a daughter who is married and she has children, and her husband has been missing for a while. She has her own house. Can I give her my zakaah so that she can take care of the orphan children?"

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjed (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question, "How should a person pray who wants to offer the funeral prayer over more than one grave?"

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: What is the ruling on one who swears by something other than Allah that he would divorce his wife?

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid answers the following question, “Is it haram to eat the special sweets made for the occasion of the prophet’s Birthday, a day before or after or on the same day? What is the ruling on buying these sweets especially that this type of sweets is related only to this occasion?

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid gives an introduction to Standing Committee for Scholarly Research and Issuing Fatwas.

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid answers the following question, “I hope you can give me some examples of good deeds that we can do every day to increase our hasanaat.

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: Is there a hadith that praying without a sutrah (an object like a barrier between the praying one and the people) decreases half of its reward? If so, please tell me about the narrator and the hadith books that mentioned it.

A fatwa in English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid answers the following question, “I have a friend from one of the Arab countries, and in that country Mother’s Day is an official holiday, which he celebrates with his brothers and sisters because of their mother. Now he wants to stop doing that, but his mother will be angry because she has become accustomed to this thing and it has become a tradition in their country. He is afraid that his mother will be angry with him and will bear a grudge against him until she dies not pleased with him. He has tried to convince her that it is haraam and why, but she is not convinced because of the atmosphere in their country. What should he do? Please advise us, may Allah bless you.”

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: What is the Islamic perspective on Valentine's Day?

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: What about the meat, chicken, and fish we eat in restaurants in non-Islamic countries? They do not remember Allah while slaughtering them. Is it sufficient to remember Allah when eating them?

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: If a girl loved a boy without exposing that, would she commit a sin?

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: My mother is having health problems and requested me to go to church and pray for her there that she will get better since I stopped going to church with her and my father for a few months now. When I stopped, they were very upset at first, seemingly like every single Sunday comes up, they expected highly that I would get dressed and go with them, but I never did. So, is it permissible to go to church with the intention just to make them happy, especially my mother?

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: What are the scriptures of Ibrahim (peace be upon him)?

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) talks about participating in the program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," and emphasizes that this competition is one of the new economy's tools that depends on opportunities and coincidence, which is a form of gambling.

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: Why does Islam forbid the pig even though it is one of Allah's creatures, and why did Allah create the pig then?

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) answers the following question: What is the ruling on giving all that one owns in charity?

A fatwa translated into English in which Sh. Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid (may Allah preserve him) explains some issues related to the science of hadith terminology. He shows the difference between two phrases namely, authentic hadith vs. its chain of narrators is authentic.